In April 2005, the heat of early summer was clearly reflected on the film market. The record-breaking premiere of "City of Sin" in the first week opened the box office with a vigorous start. The premiere of "Saharan Cavalry" in the second week triggered a hot topic. It seemed that before there was time to feel the lingering spring, summer could not wait to arrive, giving people the illusion of midsummer in June.

Everyone is looking forward to it, looking forward to the spring season that can burst out more energy, drive the outbreak of the summer season and promote the entire movie market.

Especially the "Saharan Cavalry", this work has the ability to compete in the summer season, but it was placed in April three weeks in advance, just like a giant, dominating this weak period in a grand manner and having the ability to swallow the entire box office market. When the "City of Sin" has burst out with shocking energy, these two works with different themes, different types, different specifications, and different audiences have a head-on collision, which is very likely to achieve a win-win situation, further stimulate the North American market potential in April, and completely rewrite the history of the spring season.

However, when the single-day box office statistics on Friday, April 8 were released, everyone was shocked, their faces were full of shock, their bodies were cold, and they couldn't even make an appropriate reaction.

As the first day of the premiere of "Saharan Cavalry", on April 8, this work, which cost 160 million US dollars, only received 5.183 million US dollars!

Five million is only five million, which makes the anger unable to condense. Only a data of an empty smile is left, and the anger is so angry that it is helpless. The so-called five million single-day box office is reflected in the production cost of 160 million and the promotional cost of more than 50 million, making it look so thin and pale. What's even more ridiculous is that five million is just the cost of the crew when they filmed in Morocco. They spent 2 million to film the scene of the plane crash, but in the post-production process, the pictures were cut off and there was no left at all.

Now that the movie is released, everyone is looking forward to the work being able to explode at a single-day box office of 20 million, but the result is only 5 million, the ridiculous five million, the pale and powerless five million, and the incredible five million. The five million like shit!

This also means that this movie does not need to wait for the box office on Saturday and Sunday. The box office estimate data for the premiere weekend can be directly lowered to below 20 million. Although the specific results still depend on the increase on Saturday, it is certain that the height predicted by the media is impossible to reach.

At this moment, even the "New Yorkers" who were the most conservative in the prediction stage, the 35 million they predicted seemed exaggerated and outrageous.

Even the "Future Water World" that lost the box office miserably, earned 21 million US dollars on its premiere weekend, but now it seems that the "Sahara Cavalry" will be extremely difficult to reach such a height. Does this mean that the final box office of the "Sahara Cavalry" may be even more miserable than the "Future Water World"?

It is worth mentioning that the single-player box office of the movie on Friday was only 1,643 US dollars. Compared with horizontal data, the single-player box office of "City of Sin" premiered last week was 18,000.

The Chicago Tribune joked that, "At least, the Sahara cavalry can breathe a sigh of relief. The most Guinness record in film history of Cutthroat Island should not change the winner in a short period of time. Because Cutthroat Island only earned two million dollars on the weekend of its premiere, the Sahara cavalry has successfully arrived with its outstanding performance at the box office on Friday."

Shame, this is the real shame and great humiliation. The "Saharan Cavalry" ushered in a vigorous disappointment under the vigorous momentum. The box office on Friday can be called a terrible one. It seems that everything indicates that the movie will usher in an avalanche-like defeat. The journey has just begun, and it has come to an end in a blink of an eye. The disappointment has reached its peak and anger has reached its peak, so that the clenched fists have become weak and can only loosen their strength.

For laymen, "Saharan Cavalry" and "City of Sin" are just two ordinary works released around April and do not have any special meaning. Even though someone reported the division within Diorama Film, such things are staged almost every day on Wall Street.

But for industry insiders, they know that the grudge between Diorama and Chaos Pictures is not the final victory or defeat, but the sparks burst out from this showdown, just like a Colombian soap opera, and the battle can always make the bystanders excited.

Everyone is looking forward to a hot showdown that is evenly matched, with a bayonet fighting between the "Sahara Cavalry" and the "City of Sin". Just like the "Twelve Arhats" and "Killing with Killing" in December last year, they fought each other until the last moment to decide the outcome. But the result disappointed people. This was more like a unilateral bloody massacre. Although it was only released on Friday's box office, there were two days of battles to come to a conclusion. It seemed early to draw a conclusion now, but reality was always more cruel than imagined.

"City of Sin" earned 10.33 million box office on Friday alone.

10.33 million is almost twice the box office of the "Sahara Cavalry" in a single day, and this is the premiere weekend of the second week of "City of Sin" released against the "Sahara Cavalry". Such a huge gap almost makes all the quibbling and all the excuses pale and powerless, leaving only a mess. This data is so dazzling and so dazzling that there is no need for extra explanation. It is just a direct comparison of a series of cold data, and the right judgment is immediately made.

What is even more ironic is that the premiere of "Sahara Cavalry" has achieved great success. To be precise, the "Sahara Cavalry" that has been promoted since the beginning of the year can be regarded as one of the most anticipated works in the first half of the year. Even compared with the summer "Star Wars Prequel 3: Revenge of the Sith", "Batman Prequel: The Mystery of the Shadow", it seems that all the signs indicate that this will be a box office bomb.

Some people even look forward to the "Saharan Cavalry" premiere weekend that can burst out with 60 million energy, which is two levels higher than the box office record of April premiere just created by "Sin City". This shows people's high expectations for this work.

But this is the theory of everything. The higher the expectations, the higher the disappointment, the higher the stand, the heavier the fall.

Originally, people were expecting the "Saharan Cavalry" to crush the entire market, but in the end they were crushed by "Sin City". The $10.33 million box office on Friday also means that the next week of "Sin City" has a high hope of exceeding the 30 million level again, and it is undoubtedly a new record for the second week of the premiere in April. Now people have begun to shift their goals. If "Sin City" can really set records again, then all viewers will become part of history, which is really exciting.

From 10 million to 5 million in a single-day box office, from leading the way before the premiere to coming from behind, from soaring after the premiere to being in a slump, from moving forward in controversy to collapse in anticipation, "Sahara Cavalry" and "City of Sin" have embarked on two different development trajectories and are rapidly galloping in different directions. The gap is getting bigger and bigger, and they have replaced each other into two completely different positions, truly interpreting the invisible blood in Hollywood.

The overnight success and failure of Hollywood are like a tornado, which is like a tornado, and is caught off guard.

Although it was just a Friday box office data, let alone the future box office trend, even Saturday and Sunday box offices have not been released. It seems a bit too hasty to judge the outcome now, but the media can't wait to draw a conclusion because the first batch of comments made a brilliant appearance, and they not only did not show any surprises for the poor performance of the market box office, but also actively provided strong support.

The "Saharan Cavalry" was under the gaze of attention. The first batch of comments attracted thirty-three media. This data was actually lower than "City of Sin", which was really an accident. However, compared to the media's ratings, this small accident is not worth mentioning. Among the thirty-three media, only one media gave the praise to the "San Francisco Chronicle", and the other thirty-two media's ratings were all below the passing line. Looking at the red critical negative scores on the rating list, the scene was bloody and even more violent than the movie scenes of "City of Sin".

This made people involuntarily compare the situation when the "Twelve Arhats" was released. The finished product quality of the "Twelve Arhats" was not satisfactory, but at least it maintained the entertaining nature of popcorn, so the film critics found a foothold in their criticism, which made the film's media review not that embarrassing.

However, the finished product quality of the "Saharan Cavalry" can be described as terrible. Even if you are unconscience, it is difficult to say more good things. This has nothing to do with the opposition between the east and west, it has nothing to do with the complex connections in the circle, and it has nothing to do with the interests of the company. Bad movies are bad movies, and you can't say too many good things without closing your eyes.

Even close friends such as the Los Angeles Times supported the "Saharan Cavalry" before it was released, but they could not say anything good at this time. They just gave a 50-minute average and had no heart to join the ranks of large-scale criticism. This was already the end of benevolence and righteousness.

But it is not just the Los Angeles Times. Even a group of news media on the East Coast couldn't bear it when they saw the bloody media comprehensive evaluation list, because it was like bullying an unarmed disabled person. The act of taking advantage of the situation will not only not give you any pleasure, but will even create a terrible sense of guilt. This is the current situation of the "Saharan Cavalry", which is cruel and terrible, helpless but ridiculous. To be continued.
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